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SYSTOR 2007 begins tomorrow. I’m so excited I barely slept last night. I keep wondering what I forgot, what am I missing, what will go wrong. It should come as no surprise that I’m tired and cranky. But hey, on the positive side, I think I figured out at 5AM while staring at the ceiling and listening to the sleeping house a Calgary bug that had me baffled for a while. It only occurs on a new class of servers where some busses are on CalIOC2 and some aren’t, a topology we haven’t seen before.

Two papers, an editorial and a short introduction due tomorrow for the Operating Systems Review special issue on work from IBM research, which will also have selected best papers from SYSTOR. One of the papers is nearly done, the other is making steady progress, the editorial needs some lovin’ and the introduction I have yet to start. Oy.

Dear [Lead Author]

Congratulations! On behalf of the ASPLOS 2008 Program Committee, I am
delighted to inform you that the your submission to ASPLOS 2008 has
been accepted to appear at the conference:

     Tapping into the Fountain of CPUs - On Operating Systems Support
     for Programmable Devices

The Program Committee worked very hard to thoroughly review all
submitted papers.  They selected 31 papers out of 127
submissions....

From the dept of things I didn’t expect to say: we got press-released.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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Haifa Systems and Storage Conference 2007 (SYSTOR ’07)

October 29 – 30, 2007, Haifa, Israel

http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/Workshops/systor2007

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Registration deadline: October 22.

The first annual Haifa Systems and Storage Conference will be held at
the IBM Haifa Labs, in Haifa, Israel. The conference consists of two
one-day workshop, a virtualization workshop on October 29 and a
storage workshop on October 30.

SYSTOR 2007 is the first high-quality refereed systems and storage
conference organized by IBM Haifa Labs and the Technion, drawing upon
the successful foundation of previous systems and storage
seminars. The purpose of this conference is to forge and nourish
research and working relations within the academic and industrial
community targeting researchers and practitioners alike.

There is a limited number of seats available on a
first-come-first-served basis upon registration at
http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/Workshops/systor2007/registration.html
(registration is free of charge). Lunch and refreshments will be
served on both days courtesy of IBM Haifa Labs.

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Virtualization Workshop: the first day of the conference will be a
full-day systems research workshop on the subject of
virtualization. The workshop will present contemporary advancements in
the field of systems virtualization and will feature two renowned
keynote speakers:

Danny Dolev
(Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

and

Willy Zwaenepoel
(Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland)

The workshop will also include a number of talks, a lightning-talk
session and a poster session. Audience participation will be expected
and encouraged. Selected best papers from the workshop will be
published in a special issue of ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review.

Storage Workshop: the second day of the conference will include
presentations by IBM contributors and guest speakers on storage market
trends and innovations. A focus will be put on leading R&D trends that
will likely underlie the future of storage technologies. Keynote
speaker:

Pini Cohen
(Senior analyst, STKI)

The full agenda for both days will be available on the conference
website.

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SYSTOR ’07 Organizing Committee:

* Miriam Allalouf, IBM Haifa Research Lab
* Gitit Bar-El, IBM Haifa Development Lab
* Muli Ben-Yehuda, IBM Haifa Research Lab
* Yitzhak (Tsahi) Birk, Technion
* Eliezer Dekel, IBM Haifa Research Lab
* Erez Hadad, IBM Haifa Research Lab
* Arik Kol, IBM Israel, GTU
* Dalit Naor, IBM Haifa Research Lab
* Amir Sasson, IBM Haifa Development Lab
* Assaf Schuster, Technion
* Shmuel Vashdi, IBM Haifa Development Lab
* Yaron Wolfsthal, IBM Haifa Research Lab
* Ben-Ami Yassour, IBM Haifa Research Lab

Virtualization Workshop Program Committee:

* Assaf Schuster, Technion
* Yitzhak (Tsahi) Birk, Technion
* Roy Friedman, Technion
* Sivan Toledo, Tel Aviv University
* Shlomi Dolev, Ben Gurion University
* Leendert Van Doorn, AMD
* Marc E. Fiuczynski, Princeton
* Dilma Da Silva, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
* Bob Wisniewski, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
* Michael Factor, IBM Haifa Research Lab
* Julian Satran, IBM Haifa Research Lab
* Muli Ben-Yehuda, IBM Haifa Research Lab
* Ilan Shimony, IBM Haifa Research Lab
* Leah Shalev, IBM Haifa Research Lab
* Avi Mendelson, Intel
* Shimon Shoken, IDC

Storage Workshop Program Committee:
* Michael Rodeh, IBM Corporate
* Aviad Zlotnick, IBM Haifa Development Lab
* Arik Kol, IBM Israel, GTU
* Gitit Bar-El, , IBM Haifa Development Lab
* Amir Sasson, IBM Haifa Development Lab
* Shmuel Vashdi, IBM Haifa Development Lab

SYSTOR ’07 local arrangements:

* Yael Hay Karsenty, IBM Haifa Research Lab
* Sigal Feler, IBM Haifa Development Lab